We met the people we were staying with in the afternoon, Jere and Ralph, they had a dog who's name was Jake, that was a bit protective, but loosened up later on in the week. Our first stop in San Diego was the world famous San Diego Zoo. It was the best Zoo I had ever been to with animals I had never heard of and even some Hybrids. The two best places we went to were the polar bears were we saw them fighting which is different to what they normally do, believe me! The thing was when we went to the monkey and otter area, which is right next to each other with no fence, so it wasn't a surprise but it was still very cool when a monkey and two otters started fighting. It lasted about 5 minutes and was super funny. The next day we went to the USS Midway, which is an Aircraft Carrier, and is absolutely massive. It looked really, really,boring, but as it turned out it was really good. There were heaps of planes in there were you could go into the cockpits, and one were you could go into the main body of the plane

. After looking around and getting lunch me and Cass went into a simulator which went upside down. It was a three minute simulation and I was the pilot and Cassandra was the gunner for the first 2 minutes we couldn't control it and it was going round and round, Cassandra was screaming and I was roaring my head off. After That we left and watched a very very boring movie, Nim's Island. Two days after that we went to Seaworld. We went on two rides and did three shows. One of the shows was pretty mediocre, mind you, the orca and the sea lion show was awesome. One of the rides we queued for about half an hour for and was miserable and we got drenched. the other one was awesome, as it was half roller coaster and half log flume which absolutely everyone liked and went on six times. We went home and all the kids had chafing and i had blisters on my feet but it was still awesome. The next day we packed our bags and headed for Tucson in Arizona, a six hour drive.